hide applications from dash

I don't see it as a advantage. Hiding programs hurts usability.

I understand that there are more important things to do now. And thank you for your answer. I hope I don't spam you.

Its more look and feel

I like my system
1. customizable
2. like a train ticket vendor (there I also can not find system settings)
3. I used easy stroke and was on the couch, looking a film, have only the mouse and don't want to (can not) reach the keybord, open the menü and have to filter 94 applications
4. if I write something I prefer keycommands but I think, a system has to be great to command from keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, eyetracking, and so on.
5. if I use compiz-config-manager or synaptic, i don't want to find them and use my screenspace under recently used or what ever (the vendor story)
6. their are categories, there could one be named "nodash", I don't understand the code but I think this would not slow down the system. To add own search filter would alse be great and trigger them with keywords like bookmarks in a browser. @s for system, @m for musik, and so @h for the hidden stuff so noone gets hurt.
7. apropos look and feel, it would be nice later if I can decide the maximized dash by default
8. it is my way how I like my sytem, my old gnome had 4 panels, the top for info, the left for apps, the bottom for places and the right (with a 2 or 3 seconds delay, the system settings panel with 4 menus like safety (firewall), optic (design programms), under windows I had all my uninstalls in a hidden folder, bla bla...
9. There is a wish of a blacklist in the activity journal, so I think I am not the only one.

If I would have the command, I would force gnome-do to integrate in the dash or instead provide a UI that looks like the dash to let the user deside whats beautiful.

All the best

werner
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I have found a way to remove the applications from dash. Press 'Alt+F2' to open the run dialogue. Type in 'gksu nautilus' to open nautilus as root. Navigate to 'usr/share/applications' and cut/paste the selected applications to another folder as a backup (I used the root home folder). Log out and back in and the applications should have gone.

Maybe there is another easier way, but this worked for me.

this sounds simple. As long I can open my system settings from the log out menu, this wourld realy make me happy!

Thank you!!!

No, this trick also hides the apps from the control center. So my I need to be able to configure the categories in the das, so I can remove the category system there.
Or I make my own control center in nautilus, but the I have a useless entry at logout. It seems that I have to pay to play.

It should be possible to make a category which hides there apps in the other categories. Like now there is "NoDisplay=true" which hides the app everywhere, So I like to put the system settings only in "system" and hide them everywhere else include the category "all apps"

one again: it is very easy to hide an app from the control center, but it stays in the dash, if I do anything to hide it from the dash, it is also hidden in the control center. grrrr

if I make the folder system within the applications folder and blacklist it, it also don't work. I don't know why, the blacklist works great. But the apps stay in the category "installed" So the problem is not zeitgeist.

But it is nice to be able to hide apps there from recent used.

ps: if someone from gnome-do reads this, it may sound rude what I wrote above, english is not my first language and the design is realy beautiful, it just don't fit my desktop theme.

Hadn't noticed it was removed from system settings as well, as I was using the above method to remove duplicates.

I have been testing settings with the 'monitors' app, and changing the line 'OnlyShowIn'. Removing GNOME removes the application from everything, all the others seem to do nothing. I'll admit I'm not great with this coding :/

You could set a keyboard shortcut or unity jumplist for the time being, and hope this is properly implimented at some point.

Thats what I did.

I just figured it out how it works

Now I have only 3 often used apps like systemmonitor in system settings, but when I open the system settings, I have Jumplists to the folder with the others and directly to two also often used one like compiz.

Jumplists are so great, I have a calculater at gedit and some folders at the home folder and media apps now. :-)

I agree, jumplists are great. Why have 4 media apps when you can have them all under one icon : )